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Rafael (the lead developer of 5.10 and guy who will be doing the release) put out a first release candidate late November (amusingly, he did it live on stage at a conference - I was there watching!) There's been at least an RC2 after a couple of issues came up in the first candidate, but it's pretty much there.

December 18th is the 20th birthday of Perl (20 years to the day the very first version of Perl, Perl 1.000, was released), and last I heard his plan is to make the release on this day. So those attending a Perl birthday party (I'm pondering it, even though it's a 4-5 hour journey to my nearest one!) will probably have two reasons to celebrate. :-)

This release also contains my first contributions to the Perl 6 compiler too (though not Parrot, which I've been hacking on for ages).

I think we should release Perl 6 Alpha 1 on April 1st, so nobody will actually believe it's happened...until they go and see they can download it. Well, maybe we're ready for an Alpha then, who knows. Hack hack hack...